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Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:

and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread.

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Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness(A)

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a](B) by the devil.(C) After fasting forty days and forty nights,(D) he was hungry. The tempter(E) came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God,(F) tell these stones to become bread.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:1 The Greek for tempted can also mean tested.